Dennis from It’s Always Sunny is starring in a film about the rise and fall of BlackBerry
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#62VC9)
Photo by: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Well, we didn't know this one was coming: they're making a film about former-mobile-titan BlackBerry, and it's going to star Glenn Howerton of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as the company's co-CEO, Jim Balsillie. According to The Globe and Mail, production wrapped this week, though when exactly the film will hit cinemas is unknown.
The film, simply titled BlackBerry, is based on the 2015 book Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry, by journalists Sean Silcoff and Jacquie McNish. According to its blurb, the book focuses on an unlikely partnership between a visionary engineer, Mike Lazaridis, and an abrasive Harvard Business school grad, Jim Balsillie" - the two founders of Research in Motion (RIM), which...